# JA-SA-JA (Yašʿaya)

> personal name '(DN) has helped', hypocoristic

A name in the Linear A onomasticon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: Yašʿaya
- Type: Personal name; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Knossos
- Lexicon: [JA-SA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-JA/index.md>)

## Commentary

KN Zg 55, a steatite disk seal: face b JA-SA-JA, the whole text, in the owner's slot. Yašʿaya '(DN) has helped', hypocoristic, as Amorite Jišʿ-ija (Gelb 1980, no. 3768), ʿayin unwritten. Weak point: the root's interdental would be written in the T series, so the spelling needs a donor form after *ṯ > š. Rival: an abbreviation of JA-SA-SA-RA (Younger). One attestation.

## Attestations

- [KN Zg 55](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZg55/index.md>)

## References

- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

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